Cooking in the microwave is wild to me. I'm Mexican and we treat it as a reheating machine with a clock and a bunch of buttons that do nothing.
The dumb "nuke it on full for 90 seconds" one. No thought put into it, I just know it will be edible by my standards.
Most microwavable food is already edible because it is a dumb idea to use a microwave for much more than reheating food, because it requires time and microwaves consume a ton of power for the heat they provide. The advantage of microwaves is that they have very little heatup time which makes it good for short blasts.
"Palatable" would have been a better choice of words. I'm generally not very picky.
I've gotten down air frying my frozen microwave breakfast sandwiches down to a science. They never felt right in the microwave no matter what I tried.
Perfection.
When I've tried just nuking it in full for X seconds in the microwave there is always something frozen in the middle.
Double time half power gang. It's so much better. I can wait an extra 90 sec for it to be evenly heated.
Double time, half power. Everything just tastes better, it's heated more evenly and less dried out/mushy
The amazing thing is I can't get people to try it... Every time I mention it people look at me like I'm crazy to suggest they wait an extra 3 minutes for their food
80% of people probably have no idea that microwaves have power settings
Lower power basically does this automatically. Do extra time on lower power and it's way better with no additional effort required
Interesting bit of trivia. Microwaves don't actually have "high" or "low" settings. The magnetron, the microwave's core component, only has two states - on and off. It can't power the magnetron at 10% power level.
Instead, the "power" settings just control how often the magnetron is activated. So maybe at full power it's on 100% of the time. At medium it's 10 seconds on, 10 second off. At low it's 3 seconds on, 10 seconds off. That kind of thing. The "power" setting is just a glorified timer.
You're not qualified for this topic. You're only allowed to share trivia about trees and erections
Unless you have a modern microwave with an inverter, which will power the magnetron constantly with varying levels of power.
Yep, that's what I meant by doing it automatically.
deep microwave lore here
I want a microwave that has a database of every possible food type that tells it the optimal programming for everything, supported by sensors measuring weight, humidity, maybe even an infrared camera inside, if those can survive microwaves.
Until I have that: 100% until stuff starts to steam/bubble/boil, take it out, bite into it, regret not putting it in for longer, eat mostly cold leftovers.
You can see a technology connection a mile away
Yep ,90 secs at 100% does it for most things in mine
I don't use the microwave that often, but doesn't that result in explosion all the time?
And don't we use Watt for that instead of percent?
.00001% - twice as long at half power, oh look the centre isn't still frozen
Cheap microwaves have hot spots instead of even distribution of the microwaves inside the chamber. They use turntables to mask this issue, but the best option is to buy a high end microwave with even distribution. They will heat the food more evenly, and the lack of a turntable makes cleaning much easier
So based.
My microwave sucks in that the "one touch start" feature always uses full power. To microwave on 50% power, you have to first touch set timer. Then input the time in full. Then touch power. Then input 5. Then press start.
To work around this I made one of the programmable functions microwave at 50% for one minute. There is a handy +30s so I can just press that button if I need to extend it.
Too complicated. Put it on the never buy again list.
If the instructions give me any nonsense I just do the math and use the power level function.
I bought a microwave to make my life easier, I'll be damned if I'm gonna flip food over because someone doesn't understand how to write instructions involving the power level button
Neither. I'm 2m30s or 80% for reheating a meal.
Same. Calm, long heating for the most even results. When you know what makes microwaves work, it just makes sense. But it all depends on what type of results you're looking to get, and what type of thing you're heating. 🤷♂️
Never over 50% power. I'm always shocked by how many people don't know how to use a microwave. I usually worked a long time on my food, I don't want to ruin it through lazy reheating.
The difference in heating is negligible, but the time saved sure isn't. Always at 100%
Full 900w every time, because that's what the package asks for. Except when it asks for 1000w.
What do you mean, never? Do you never heat water, coffee, tea, ...? Or just larger quantities where more power is no problem even for longer durations? This is not a fundamental thing, the optimum is different not just based on type, amount and distribution of food, additionally things like time constraints, container or cleaning matter.
Never for reheating leftovers, anyway, which is 99% of what I use a microwave for. I have a kettle for other stuff. Overly high heat is gonna turn your proteins into rubber and exaggerate the "flaming hot on the outside, still cold in the middle" effect. There's also lots of other stuff like arranging things to avoid dead spots, making use of coverings to trap steam, not throwing your vegetables that will take a minute to warm up in at the beginning with the big hunk of pasta that's gonna need several minutes to heat through, etc.
But yeah if you're reheating your food on >50% power you are almost definitely making it turn out worse than it would be on lower power.
When reheating food on a plate, I just put protein first for 30-60s, then add carbs (rice, pasta, or potato) and heat it all together for more 30-60s or until it's steaming. Always full power.
Obligatory netshaq post about the reheat function https://youtu.be/dpf3bxQVLu8
I don't use the microwave. Also I didn't know there were different heat settings.
The power setting makes the microwave cycle between ON and OFF at the given ratio. So at 50% power the microwave will only be heating for half of the cook time.
Modern LG microwaves have a variable power inverter so it’s not PWM. I would imagine they’re not the only ones.
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